ten o'clock moscow time the syrian opposition says washington shouldn't label any group fighting the assad regime as terrorists this is a massive blast gropes damascus. but does washington really care that the opposition they support is endorsing terrorists more details coming up. north korea's rocket blasts off a message of defiance pyongyang says it sent a weather satellite into space but it's enough to unnerve the region we got a report on that. and president putin bows to cage the corrupt and says it's time for russians to seize the initiative in their country's development.

in a very good evening kevin owen here at the r t v center tonight in moscow syria's main opposition coalition says the u.s. should reconsider its decision to are the leading rebel group to its terrorist list meanwhile several explosions struck outside the interior ministry in damascus earlier the u.s. became the latest country to endorse the opposition in lives the latest smart he's going to teach a cat in washington. washington is trying to distance itself from extremists in syria they have designated the front carrousel can ization it's a sock to be one of the most aggressive and ruthless groups currently involved in the conflict washington decision to call them terrorists is seen as more of a symbolic move because many other fighters in syria possibly most of them welcome the efforts of those designated terrorists efforts that include suicide bombings and killing of prisoners as you just this wednesday. a bombing bill drop to

damascus see it to call when you hear the interior ministry in damascus we don't know whether it was. or another rebel group responsible for that in fact the leader of the very syrian opposition coalition which the u.s. has just formally recognized and is supported by came out and asked the u.s. to we consider their decision on almost right because they've been so helpful in the fight against assad here is what he said. the decision of considering one of the factions fighting the regime is a terrorist organization should be reconsidered and we all madly love our country might differ with some groups and ideology and political views but we confirmed that all of the rifles of all the rebels are united and we aim at toppling the criminal regime and then this opposition leader went on to talk about how important religion is in their fight he says and i quote martyrdom for the sake of allah has always been

a main motive for people's freedom end of quote so that's the idea of freedom that the leader of the syrian rebels pass in short the u.s. supports the syrian rebels and their aspirations for freedom while the rebels there are thinking terrorists but the decision to formally recognize the syrian opposition coalition will pave the way for more support for these rebels and they're asking for weapons for a lot of weapons including heavy artillery and this report i'm taking a closer look at the. syria. they call themselves martyrs. all those you see around you of the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country but the syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat us sot. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead

a man who was presumably an assault supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground it's islamic groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr tao we come meet was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam that you have this have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his e.t.a. shin to use any form of whip around to to really. control any place. religious believes and ideology representatives of opposition fighters came together in turkey last friday to form a unified command with the support of the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and friends one of the delegates at the meeting says two thirds of the islamist dominated anti assad groups have ties to the muslim brotherhood and salafist people

here in washington don't seem to understand that if you don't like the government in karo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria. preferring to focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on rabbits we

could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage for them of the human will die like these two rabbits in its own words the assad government is fighting terrorists that battle has claimed thousands of innocent lives the measures the syrian government resorted to have been widely criticized but there's that crisis mean the world should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check on who's been reporting over the last couple hours as more deadly violence in syria too with two blasts near a primary school southeast of the capital killing at least one person injuring five and in a separate incident one person was wounded after two more explosions near a court building in damascus foreign policy experts say the warning signs of america recognizing the rebel coalition pushing syria deeper into a crisis which could a region wide. what it does is that it opens the door now for much more direct intervention in the civil war it will mean heavy weapons will

come in contention even i think you could end up with a no fly zone it's really pretty much an open declaration of war against the outside regime one of the things that i think is difficult is trying to get really accurate reporting it seems as if the arsenal of regime is sort of its back against the wall and yet at the same time it doesn't seem as if the opposition could really hold on to territory i mean this could be a long running thing this could go on for a couple of months i think the u.s. recognition here will accelerate the pressure on the awesome regime but i foresee here is is a lot of chaos i think you're going to see sunni extremism is going to be. essentially enhanced throughout the middle east which might mean a reigniting the civil war in iraq i think there's a possibility of regarding civil war in lebanon on you have

a situation peretz. this is just a terrible mess at this point. north korea successfully launched a rocket defying warnings from its neighbors and the united states it's the second attempt this year after a failure in april young says it sent a weather satellite into orbit but washington sold in tokyo claim to test a long range missile technology threaten fresh sanctions saying the north violated international law as it's banned from conducting ballistic missile tests by the u.n. security council condemned the launch to north korea expert professor frank says the pressure of pyongyang those never yielded results before. sanctions or of course an appropriate means to show your political dissatisfaction but in terms of being effective they are almost useless and serves a lot of career sections of their lives. so i put decades. ahead enough time to find ways around those sanctions though humanitarian concerns is eliza tried if so

i think sanctions have more or less a symbolical function but they will have very little actual effects on all korea whether it's a rocket or a missile is definitely a question of interpretation from a political perspective because technically both devices leave you saying is this a difference is what the pay a little bit you put this tall it's a rock if you put a new field warhead on top it's a missile that basically it's the same thing to go to the u.n. to see a resolution there already is interpretations on the legal expert but i don't at all fully if he doesn't believe the office resolution is enough to prohibit. all of that launches for peaceful purposes frankly speaking i do nothing to believe that north korea intends an all out attack on its neighbors this program including nuclear program has purely defensive and the deterrence of purposes it's knows no sides are interested how war because if you have war in korea both korea selection is off for a lot as long as the regime is stable in north korea and that's actually the

pressure there is no immediate it's our danger of a war breaking up. president putin promises that no corrupt official politician will go unpunished later in the show tonight we hear about the crackdown the russian made a vow during his first address to the kremlin that's coming up very shortly also to the u.k. reveals who's going to step up to revive its flagging economy but the rich can rest of these governments can be targeting the poorest as we reform the spread. it's perched atop a jar and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the i can see up for a city that. area for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the a spiritual center. seems

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suspected of wrongdoings president putin focused strongly today on how to solve problems at home in his first address since returning to the top job. as more of what the russian media had to say. several years ago when former president medvedev addressed russia's lawmakers this signaled major constitutional changes for the country with the presidential term being extended to six years this time when president putin delivered his first annual address after returning to the kremlin for the third time it ran no major sensations nor political changes but at the same time this speech was even more significant as some have already said than many others before this time put in barely spoke about any foreign policy issues the main focus was on domestic problems in russia and there have been with plenty according to russia's president in fact he started his speech by saying it is now or never as the world is going through a crisis russia must stand up to all these challenges and the first and the most

correct way to do that is to invest in two youths richard is the what's the as of today the percentage of healthy active able bodied people in russia and he's between twenty to forty is one of the highest in the world twenty years time economically active population could shrink by fifty percent less we do something this trend will continue that we provide interesting jobs give opportunities to create business build families raise children be happy just a few decades russia will become a poor country populated by an elderly generation incapable of preserving its own territory but probably the biggest problem dragging russia back for the past two decades has been corruption among the higher echelons of power that is because the largest probably the largest chunk of speech was dedicated to this burning issue that is clear is the probably the toughest message coming out from the russian

president this time on the fight against corruption was that north we got a list of how high she will he or she is can feel safe from punishment if he or she is found in embezzlement or any corruptive actions in there go. her mental body's so tough was put in on the issue that sometimes it seemed that he was not speaking to the whole country or for the whole world to listen but he was addressing the people directly in this particular hole those who gathered to listen to what he had to say russia's lawmakers people from the cultural sears and military coup or david in order that we could you know you can how can people trust an official or a politician who talks a lot about the good of russia where you live the same time trying to take his money out of the country i ask you to support the trail to limit the amount of foreign accounts and staunch that officials and politicians can. get the people of they. don't applaud yet maybe you would like everything i have

to say in just one week's time i didn't put in will be holding an annual press conference for the world media and the eyes of the entire planet will again be on the russian president let's see russia r.t. reporting from inside the kremlin well hooten said the world faces more big changes in the coming years and wants russia to be ready relations for the u.s. are always in focus for the first chairman for russia's parliament says mutual accusations of acting alone in the world are not the way forward. we have heard a lot of accusations towards russia from the west lately from hillary clinton from the european parliament and from some western politicians and it has basically led to nowhere we can exchange as many accusations as we want with the worst on the syrian crisis but it does not lead to the solution of this crisis and putin was absolutely right to point out that there is no possibility in the modern world to

solve those sharp international issues on a you know that's real basis and the united states the american political class have to understand this my feeling is that the largest part of the american political class is still living in the twentieth century they have not come into the twenty first century yet they sink america is an impotent sink america can do whatever it wants it's not the case and the syrian crisis shows that the development of china is a big challenge for the united states so i think that to put his message was very brief but terrorism both look at the more the world. have a reasonable assessment of your own capacitors and resources and come to the conclusion that if you act alone you will fail. palestinians are giving a whole new meaning to launching a curfew this is the it is the every seventy five it's a fragrance of fire they've named it after

a rocket goes used against israel recently are offensive but of marketing will go forward that also see the common budget numbers find out why today's date comes from some rather amusing superstitions are. twelve must know facts about the twelfth of the twelfth of the twelve. the british government's promise of its economy could be steadily revived but it's pensioners and you're going to pay the price as. the cost of recovery will be. from the poorest. the brits have got it coming

a raft of nips and tucks to tax some welfare that's going to see those with the least squeeze the most so while the treasury chief admits millionaires are about to get an average tax cut a very full one hundred thousand pounds per year for next april it's the less fortunate who bear the brunt of dealing with the u.k.'s ten billion pound welfare bill but the cuts will come in disguise take for example the new so-called bedroom tax tenants in council housing will get less than benefits if their state funded accommodation is deemed too big for some local authorities already say that could push up to four thousand people into homelessness especially as they're already being squeezed with an increased cost of living that's making christmas tough in many households the government insists it needs to fix public finances and that means cuts among various with too little to spare the chancellor has really made

the main target of his austerity agenda the poorest family he's cutting the support received both for the working poor three tax credits and so on and also for the for those unable to work it's not just bedrooms being taxed but motherhood as well last week the chancellor announced that maternity pay would be capped meaning that pregnant women will be almost two hundred pounds worse off starting next year opposition labor m.p.'s have labelled it the mummy tax and an unprecedented raid on families and that softer those at the other end of the age scale were left reeling this year from the granny tax leaving pensioners a further three hundred pounds. out of pocket and a winter of worry ahead david cameron might have promised to be the best family friendly government ever but with friends like that who needs enemies. ages position is calling for

a no vote in the constitutional referendum forthcoming there on which the gyptian experts and they'd have already begun voting while morsi says the internal part of it the internal vote will be done in two stages starting saturday and concluding a week later that decision comes because of a shortage of judges to supervise it ninety percent of the country's judge use of a boycott the referendum citizen representative choose day thousands took to the streets of cairo protesting against the draft while his mistakes their rival rallied to show support it all comes amid a hide military presence after the president ordered the army to maintain security in the country meanwhile egypt responded it's request for an i.m.f. loan because of the crisis more see how big a strike will favorable deal after voting completed as a kid we had a tour of the pan african means by or explain to me. egypt of course at a critical crossroads. is still in dire straits the international monetary fund is under negotiations right now with the morsi government over the terms of a four point eight billion dollar loan those negotiations have been suspended

pending december fifteenth presumably morsi administration would prefer postponing the negotiations thinking that if the u.s. really goes off smoothly on the fifteenth that they will be in a stronger positions to negotiate better terms for this international monetary fund loan but the situation is critical you have unemployment some twenty percent of the workforce officially is out of work also the national debt is mounting tourism which is a mainstay of the egyptian economy is extremely under stress due to the uprisings that have taken place over. the last thirty years world news in brief u.s. and philippine officials are meeting to discuss plans that could see an increased american military presence of southeast asians there a philippine government spokesman says the two countries are looking for close a maritime defense league that only ties it's believed the philippines hope

a closer working relationship with the u.s. will strengthen their position on the ground going to retore of the spirit of china the new leader of china's communist party and his comment by his military to get ready for a quote struggle. the gunman is open fire on christmas shoppers in oregon in the united states he killed two and injured another before apparently turning the weapon on himself in portland the twenty two year old reportedly wore caliph large suit and hockey mask and carried an assault rifle police believe he had no connection to any of his victims and intended to kill as many people as possible. venezuela. venezuela vice president nicolas maduro says president chavez's recovery from cancer will be complex and difficult the president went in for such operation in cuba it was described as successful chavis urged his supporters to back the durham should his condition force him to give up his duties is the latest treatment comes two months after the election a type. just before we have seen again it's new more brawling inside ukraine's

parliament again this time punches being traded by m.p.'s in the new assembly lawmakers from the party of the country's jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko pullovers beringer image and the slogan freedom for political prisoners they attacked two members of their own party accusing them of defecting to the current president viktor yanukovych his party secured a slim majority and i disputed election. bus is in the united states may no longer be a place for private conversation that's according to the news website the daily which claims it's got evidence showing public transport is being equipped with audio recording devices the multi-million dollar upgrades to boost person just security apparently and it set reportedly already underway in several u.s. cities the man who broke the news michael brick though says the new technology sparks all kinds of privacy concerns. privacy experts have different concerns that they won't work with other sorts of technologies that they were all familiar with

and some of the development such as the recognition software that places a number of other technologies on the market already or are coming to market. there's going to lead us down. one step closer to tracking individual privacy law experts i spoke to said that there's. a different dimension now it's one thing to be able to see someone moving around it's a different thing to be able to take your word. to six and a half minutes past the ten o'clock like moscow time thanks being with us katie is it here for the business news i katie ross of the old company russian oil companies got a new go in charge of human resources was that news well because he used to be the head of the prisons so we'll see shaky in their second husband best behavior well disciplined or nothing else so exactly that everyone is always on their best behavior when in the bosses in town but when he used to be head of the prison

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